Borderlands director Eli Roth candidly explains how the 2024 video game adaptation went so wrong after its critical and commercial failure. Based on the game franchise by Gearbox Software, the action-adventure film hit theaters last August, following Cate Blanchett's Lilith, a bounty hunter, as she teams up with a crew of misfits for a dangerous mission to find a missing girl. Despite the Borderlands cast also featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, and Jack Black, the film was lambasted by critics and grossed just $33 million worldwide. 6sj1f

The overwhelming success of A Minecraft Movie reinstates Jack Black as the king of video game movies following a major box office misstep last year. ed by the rest of A Minecraft Movie's popular cast, the actor is now riding the wave of a pop culture phenomenon as both young audiences and longtime fans of the game flock to theaters and take to social media. While Black's casting was initially met with skepticism, the film's massive reception proves he was the perfect choice to lead this ambitious franchise launch.

Borderlands director Eli Roth candidly recalls the video game movie adaptation's troubled production, following its critical and box office failure. Borderlands' box office performance is one of the worst for a high-budget film in 2024, only managing to scrape together $33 million worldwide against a budget of $110-120 million. The film was also critically panned, sporting a 10% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, citing it as a poor adaptation of its video game source material. This includes criticism of its PG-13 ratings when the games are rated M for Mature, and its generic translation to the big screen.

While there are plenty of Christmas films made for theaters and TV, when it comes to Thanksgiving, the pool is much smaller. That's even more the case for horror films, with the most prominent one up until 2023 being the Troma movie Thankskilling. However, Hostel and Borderlands director Eli Roth decided to fill that void in 2023 by turning his spoof trailer from Grindhouse into an actualized feature film, Thanksgiving.

Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer has addressed the Borderlands movie and its disastrous box office performance, stating what factors likely caused the film to bomb. Based on the video game franchise by Gearbox Software, the movie follows outlaw Lillith (Cate Blanchett), who puts together a team to save Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), daughter of the powerful Deukalian Atlas (Edgar Ramírez). The movie received negative reviews from critics for being generic and not engaging enough in its story and presentation. This was compounded by Borderlands' box office failure, the movie grossing $33 million worldwide against a $110-120 million budget.

Cate Blanchett has been part of various successful movies, but her latest project, Rumours, just broke a horrible Rotten Tomatoes record that even her previous movie, Borderlands, avoided. Cate Blanchett is best known for her roles in drama movies like Elizabeth, Blue Jasmine, The Aviator, and Carol, and throughout her career, she has been nominated for various awards, winning two Oscars so far. Blanchett has branched out to various genres through the years, including superhero movies with Thor: Ragnarok and fairy tales with Cinderella.

Rumours was meant to be Cate Blanchett's big 2024 redemption movie, but it currently has a worse Rotten Tomatoes score than Borderlands. Borderlands was one of the biggest box office and critical failures of the year, with many fans of Cate Blanchett being surprised that she was involved in the film. Rumors was seen as a return to form for the actress after Borderlands, but the Rotten Tomatoes score of the film suggests otherwise.

After Borderlands was a record-low Rotten Tomatoes score for critically acclaimed actor Cate Blanchett, the actress' new movie is a relief. Cate Blanchett is one of the most well-respected actresses working today, with her having appeared in beloved movies like Tár, Nightmare Alley, and The Lord of the Rings movies. However, Borderlands was a shocking misstep for the actress, something she is already fixing with her next film.

A team of VFX artists is ripping the Borderlandsmovie apart. The adaptation of the hit video game franchise, Borderlands featured an all-star cast. Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, Florian Munteanu, and numerous other stars signed on, but none were enough to save it. Despite having a budget of over $110 million, it earned just $30 million at the box office. According to sources, international pre-sales covered a significant portion of the budget, but the total was undoubtedly still disappointing for a franchise with so much potential.

Borderlands' cinematic debut was memorable for all the wrong reasons, but the franchise has one other possible live-action adaptation that would be much better than the 2024 film. After almost a decade of development, Borderlands finally arrived in theaters, but the film completely missed the mark. Alongside its box office struggles, Borderlands broke several unwanted Rotten Tomatoes records, having scored just 10% among critics, cementing the film's status as a flop. Some of the casting and story decisions felt bizarre, while the project also failed to honor its source material, leading to its underwhelming reception.